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Each year the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations observes the date of its founding, October 16, 1945, with World Food Day. Next Thursday, one event marking the date will be the opening of an Action Center to End World Hunger in lower Manhattan, NY. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

This four-week series by Fr Robert P. Maloney, C.M. aims at helping members of the Vincentian Family find more ways of talking and reflecting about concept systemic change and its implications. In this final installment, Fr. Maloney describes aspects that distinguish systemic change projects. – .ed Many good projects address urgent, immediate needs, but do [...]

This four-week series by Fr Robert P. Maloney, C.M. aims at helping members of the Vincentian Family find more ways of talking and reflecting about concept systemic change and its implications. This week, Fr. Maloney looks at terminology. –.ed The principle of systemic change, in the context of works among the poor, looks beyond providing [...]

…does anyone care? That’s a question implicit in Vincentian Father Joe Fitzgerald’s YouTube about the September 3, 2008 catastrophic flood on the Ngöbe-Bugle Comarca in Panama.

This four-week series by Fr Robert P. Maloney, C.M. aims at helping members of the Vincentian Family find more ways of talking and reflecting about concept systemic change and its implications. This week, Fr. Maloney shows how modern concepts of systemic change fit into the context of the Vincentian Family. –.ed The concept of “systemic [...]

This four-week series by Fr Robert P. Maloney, C.M. aims at helping members of the Vincentian Family find more ways of talking and reflecting about concept systemic change and its implications. We think it succeeds and will be interested in hearing what you’re talking about. –.ed Many who work among the poor speak use a [...]

famvin.org has developed a wealth of resources on the topic of systemic change from a specifically Vincentian viewpoint. Some links we recommend: Systemic Change – an introductory article especially prepared for the Vincentian Encylopedia, which includes a number of current links to resources on the Web; Vincentian Study Guides – a Vincentian Encyclopedia article based [...]

For twenty weeks the English language site of famvin.org has featured a strategy for systemic change. This week, Robert Maloney, C.M., Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change, announces the publication of Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change. Father Maloney writes: I am very happy to let you know today that Seeds of Hope: [...]

The last in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes: Systemic Change Strategy Twenty: Have a prophetic attitude – announce, denounce, and, by networking with others, engage in actions that exert pressure for bringing about [...]

The nineteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Robert Maloney, C.M. collects the official statements from 5 major branches of the Vincentian Family: Under the heading “Co-responsibility, Networking and Political Action”, the Commission for Promoting Systemic Change identified [...]